Fu’i
fu’i
- (n.) cranberry bush
Ipe i fu’i mataitai.
“That’s a pretty cranberry bush.”
Notes: Today is the last day of Renovation, and my 600th blog post. In honor of this momentous occasion, a truly random and uninspired word: fu’i.
See, for some reason I was under the misapprehension that cranberries were tropical. This was actually in contrast with what I’d understood before—that they thrived in colder weather. Somehow, I seemed to have learned that they were tropical, and so I put them on the Kamakawi Islands.
Then I learned they weren’t—that, in fact, I was right the first time.
Nevertheless, there they exist. The way I think of it, the fu’i is a bush that produces berries that either taste like or look like cranberries, and which are native to the Kamakawi Islands. That I call the bush a “cranberry” bush is just a shorthand.
That, at least, is the storing I’m going with.
August 21st, 2011 at 10:48 am)
Are there any chilly hills or cold rock faces on the islands? Maybe that’s where they thrive best, but they can grow anywhere on the islands?
and have a Happy 600th!
August 21st, 2011 at 12:37 pm)
I’ll really have to give that some thought. I know in Hawai’i there’s snow at the top of some of the larger summits, but I have to wonder how the berry bushes would’ve gotten there in the first place…
Hmm. Actually this is giving me some ideas. All right, I accept the existence of cranberries on the Kamakawi Islands!
August 22nd, 2011 at 2:51 am)
> but I have to wonder how the berry bushes would’ve gotten there in the first place…
bird poo?
(okay, there are some things that should never be translated)
also, glad I could help with the existence of cranberries on the Islands.